Specifying concrete that uses fly ash is another way of building green. Fly ash has been used for years as a partial replacement for Portland cement in the production of concrete. Fly ash is a residual created by the combustion of coal and is typically considered a waste product.
Fly ash is captured from chimneys in [...]

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Green construction comes with many different approaches but one of the fundamental issues is building with energy conservation as the cornerstone. So you spend lots of money building an energy efficient house; but do you really know if it’s energy efficient? The best way to test your home for energy efficiency is to perform a [...]

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Did you know that true Linoleum is Green? That’s right, it’s true, you heard it right here, linoleum is considered a green building material. Linoleum is made from solidified linseed oil, jute and other natural, rapidly replenished ingredients.
Linoleum has lost it’s market share over the years for more aesthetically pleasing materials like engineered wood and [...]

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Everyone is talking about using compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs to reduce our electricity needs. However, I often hear people say they are too expensive for what energy they save. So I decided to do the math to find out for myself whether my recent investment in CFL’s was worth while financially.
I had a feeling [...]

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A great way to save money and make you next construction project green is to use salvaged doors. Solid wood doors are sold every day by salvage yards. You can find almost any type of wood, design and size you can imagine. Not only are you recycling a valuable natural resource but you’re getting a [...]

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Around this part of the country people heat their homes with oil, propane and natural gas. More specifically here in northern NH we have a choice of oil or propane. I get lots of questions from folks about which fuel source they should choose for a new home.
The other day I wrote What Heating Fuel [...]

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Today I read an article, Builders group launches green-built home registry, which really caught my attention. The Home Builders Association of greater Dallas is launching the Country’s first ever registry of homes that have been independently certified as Green. There has been quite a bit of discussion lately in the media that certified Green homes [...]

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One of the biggest sources of pollution that each of us produces comes from heating and cooling our homes. The pollution from heating and cooling is even greater than what we produce from our automobiles. So the question is if you’re building a new home what fuel should you chose that’s the safest for the [...]

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Just a quick apology to any of my readers that couldn’t open the blog yesterday or this morning when viewed on Internet Explorer. Sitemeter, a traffic monitoring tool that I use on my blogs had a serious “meltdown” yesterday. The long and short of it was if you tried to view the site in Internet [...]

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Dual Flush Toilets make “green” sense if you ask me! Why didn’t I think of this great environmentally friendly dual flush toilet? Think about it, do you really need to flush down 1.6 gallons of water every time you go pee? Now way…that’s why the dual flush toilet makes so much “green” sense.
Low flow toilets [...]

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